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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2014
Honeywell International, Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Jay Gustin, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method includes receiving downlink packets from multiple physical Ethernet interfaces and selectively discarding some of the downlink packets based on a packet filtering criterion. The method also includes updating a network connectivity database using address information in non-discarded downlink packets. The method further includes mapping a path for each of the non-discarded downlink packets using the database and transmitting the non-discarded downlink packets to a single network interface. The method could also include receiving an uplink packet from the single network interface, selecting a primary physical Ethernet interface from the multiple physical Ethernet interfaces based on information in the database, and transmitting the uplink packet through the selected primary physical Ethernet interface.